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Can Bio-Orthogonal Chemotherapy Target Cancer Cells?
Sugar is a much more complex chemical some of which are attached to proteins and other things right I mean these are not just like your cells are covered with you know sucrose that's right. Simple lots of simple sugars get stitched together to make these long chains so interesting well I will wait for your Nobel Prize win in biology and then we can talk even more about thatUm let's go to uh gorav in Dublin with a question for you Dr Bertosi. Can we use biotogonal chemistry to target molecules across the blood brain barrier in a potentially opening a new avenue for treating these really hard to treat neurodegenerative diseases? We've certainly contemplated ideas like that no one
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